“Smile!” the photographer implored, looking straight at me as I stood in a line of people to be captured on digital. “This is a... Read More

We all know someone who can make us feel appreciated. As a humanist, I aspire to be that kind of person—in part for my... Read More

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THOMAS PIKETTY grabbed the world’s attention last year with his magnum opus, Capital in the Twenty-first Century. In hundreds of pages of dense prose... Read More

Ryan J. Bell was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist tradition and spent nearly twenty years as a pastor—the last eight as senior pastor at... Read More

ALLOW ME to describe a familiar course of events. Somewhere in the world, extremists carry out a terrorist attack in the name of Islam.... Read More

It is hard to believe that the conflicts currently ravaging the Middle East could get much worse, yet the refusal of numerous parties to... Read More

An Egyptian court in Baheira governorate on Jan. 10 sentenced a student to three years in prison for announcing on Facebook that he is... Read More

JE SUIS CHARLIE. But who are we? Who are they? There’s a scene in the 1979 film Apocalypse Now when the character Lt. Col.... Read More

Lovebirds already know that tomorrow is Valentine’s Day (and if you haven’t yet made dinner reservations, good luck) but before we shower our loved... Read More